Feeling lucky?

October must be contest month in the kidlit blogsophere because I can’t remember a time when I’ve seen so many offerings. Cool ideas, too — here’s a roundup for those of you with lottery dreams…

Being a teacher, I guess I’m especially partial to Jama Rattigan’s Apple-for-the-Teacher contest over at her blog, Alphabet Soup. She’s offering up a copy of Sarah Miller’s MISS SPITFIRE, which is amazing, and the APPLE COOKBOOK, which makes me hungry just looking at it.

) is having a Figure-Out-My-Contest-Contest at her LJ. Come up with the perfect contest for Jo, and you could win a signed first edition of LESSONS FROM A DEAD GIRL.

Curtis Brown agent Nathan Bransford has a Best First Paragraph Contest running on his blog, with a Thursday night deadline. He’s offering manuscript and query critiques as prizes. (Even if you’re not at that stage in your career, it’s worth heading over to check out some of the entries!)

I’m sure I haven’t listed them all, so if you have a contest running, too, feel free to post a link in the comments section.

And finally, have you seen the contests popping up with the Robert’s Snow: For Cancer’s Cure illustrator interviews? A number of the amazing illustrators who donated snowflakes for the auction have also signed books and prints as contest prizes to help draw traffic to the auction site. Kris over at Paradise Found, has compiled all of the Robert’s Snow contest links on her blog.